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Movie · 1970

Dodes'ka-den

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Poverty stricken Vignette driven Bleak yet tender Survivalist humanism Escapist fantasy Social realism

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Release
1970
Runtime
140 min

Synopsis

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

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